#laaaaaadies

here's to the women who hold fire in their eyes and steel in their hearts and a smile on their lips. here's to the women who built empires and inspired storms and brought them all down at their feet. here's to the women who drink bitterness and bandage their bloody hands and turn around and have nothing but a warm embrace. here's to the women who don't make the history books but shape the direction of our world with their words and their actions. here's to the women who raised me and loved me and shaped me out of whatever clay i hold into who i am.